Living Art: Exercises for Igniting Creativity

Create your life every day the same way you approach a piece of art-with creative abandon, curiosity, and enjoyment. Your life can be filled with creativity and artistic expression from the moment you wake and stretch to the time you drift off to sleep. Living creatively is about looking at the world with different eyes, and a new sense of wonder. This is what we wanted to offer you here. Living Art is a book filled with exercises, challenges, and myriad offerings that range from silly to serious. Feel free to read this book front to back, back to front, or just open it to a random page when so moved. Whatever your process, enjoy and try something new.

Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. Her first novel, We Arrive Uninvited, won the Steel Toe Books Award, and her second novel, Chaos Magic, was a finalist for the Joshua Tree Prize and was published by Kallisto Gaia Press. She is also the author of The Glass City, which won the Press Americana Prize for Prose. Jen's short fiction can be found in Chicago Tribune, Prose Online, McSweeney's Internet Quarterly, The Saturday Evening Post, and more. She won CutBank's Montana Prize in Nonfiction for "Disembodied" and the San Miguel Contest for her essay, "Teeth." Jen is the proud recipient of grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council to complete a collection of narrative essays, At Work (Cornerstone Press UWSP, 2027)

Logophile and devourer of books, Ashley Holloway is a nurse who teaches writing classes and healthcare leadership in Calgary, AB, Canada. Her work as a nurse has taken her across the globe, where her focus was primarily on maternal & child health. She writes in a variety of genres, including fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, book reviews, and poetry, with work appearing across Canada and the US. Ashley has co-authored three books and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.